Music

David Bowie - The Next Day

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Basti Menkes

Upon learning that David Bowie was to release his twenty-fourth studio album this year, my expectations weren’t altogether very high. With Bowie recently entering his sixty-sixth year on this planet, my mind instantly feared a lifeless and desperate-sounding record, the sound of an old man trying in Read more...

Six60 Interview

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

Six60 is everybody’s favourite New Zealand roots band. Born and bred right here in Dunedin, the whanau-loving, roots-remembering bunch of bros have recently been enjoying some international success, with audiences in the US and UK reportedly finding them “amazing,” “awesome,” and “incredible” Read more...

Frontier Ruckus - Eternity Dimming

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Tom McCone

Over this now-fading summer I’ve discovered and fallen for a few bands, but the one that caught my heartstrings and plucked them the strongest was alt-folk-Americana-country-something quartet Frontier Ruckus. After listening to their 2008 effort Orion Town Songbook on repeat for days and sinking Read more...

How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

For me, Trent Reznor’s music has never really surpassed guilty pleasure status. As much as I love and get a kick out of Nine Inch Nails classics like The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, the pubescent angst that permeates those records takes away from how thrilling they are musically; I always walk Read more...

Kronos Quartet (USA)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

Legendary classical ensemble Kronos Quartet have been called many things in their lifetime – passionate, intense, experimental, exhilarating. With 40 years’ touring experience and almost as many albums under their belts, they are among the most prolific and influential classical musicians of the Read more...

Devendra Banhart - Mala

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

Devendra Banhart was at one time among the strongest, strangest voices in psychedelic folk. He was discovered around the turn of the millennium by Swans frontman and Young God Records owner Michael Gira, who took the then-homeless Banhart under his wing and released a trio of albums that are Read more...

Alizarin Lizard

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Lisa Craw

If you live in Dunedin and you’ve never heard Alizarin Lizard, shame on you. Alizarin are one of the best current New Zealand bands, though are perhaps more occupied with crazed 42-date tours than they are with self-promotion. This, their second full-length album, is classic Lizard, filled with Read more...

Atoms For Peace - AMOK

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Basti Menkes

For those of you who are not already aware, I am an enormous Radiohead junkie. At any given moment you can probably catch me listening to them, forcing them onto the unfortunate folk around me, or possibly fantasising about one of the members. But as unhealthy as my addiction to Thom Yorke and his Read more...

Trick Mammoth

Posted 10:02pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Basti Menkes

Trick Mammoth is a Dunedin pop trio consisting of Adrian Ng (songwriting and vocals), Millie Lovelock (guitar and vocals), and Sam Valentine (drums). Enigmatic frontman Adrian describes their sound as “lo-fi music with a 90s guitar-pop edge.” He has been writing solo material under the Trick Read more...

Tomahawk - Oddfellows

Posted 10:02pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Basti Menkes

Alternative metal supergroup Tomahawk are back with their first album in six years. Instead of picking up where the Native American-inspired Anonymous left off, the Mike Patton-led band of misfits have taken the Tomahawk sound back to its very roots, producing something truly unique. As the Read more...